Scammonium


Scammonium signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Scammonium is used…


      Convolvulus scammonia. Scammony. *N. O. Convolvulacae. Triturations of the dried milky juice of the root.

Clinical

Diarrhoea. Gastro-enteritis.

Characteristics

*Scam. Is a drastic cathartic, producing copious watery evacuations, and griping a good deal. Sprengel records a case of fatal poisoning in an infant whose mother took a large quantity of *Scam., and herself suffered no effects. *Scam. must be compared with *Jalap., another purging convolvulus.

SYMPTOMS.

Stomach and Abdomen

Sudden vomiting and copious green stools, distension and sensitiveness of abdomen and death (in an infant whose nursing mother took a large dose of *Scam. and herself experienced no symptoms).-Slight pain in stomach with evacuation of faeces.- Violent pain and rapid succession of stools, leaving inactivity of lower intestines for several days.-Inflammation of mucous membrane attended with loss of appetite and headache.

Stool

Loose evacuation of faeces with slight pain in stomach.-Green stools.- Rapid succession of stools.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica